[indiana-discuss] Is the 2008.05 iso now based on build 91?

[Shawn Walker]

2008/7/1 Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:05 PM,  <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote:
>>>> Which version of pkg(5) are you running?  You can check this using the
>>>> command "pkg version".
>>>
>>> like this mess ?
>>>
>>> -bash-3.2# pkg version
>>> d974bb176266
>>
>> Right.  So that obscure hash means you're running the 2008.05 FCS
>> version of SUNWipkg.  Perhaps we should provide some sort of table on a
>> web page to allow easier decoding of the SUNWipkg version but in this
>> particular case, it looks like you haven't updated your SUNWipkg
>> version on the system via
>>
>>        $ pfexec pkg refresh
>>        $ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86
>
> correct .. I have been very leary of jumping on that ...
>
> I guess I better bite that bullet and see what happens
>
> Dennis
>
> ps: why the pfexec stuff ?

Because he's assuming you're running as the user created during
install of 2008.05.

Thus, pfexec is needed to execute pkg with the necessary priviliges.


-- 
Shawn Walker